 | Gershwin: Works for Piano & Orchestra
Buy new: $10.98 / Used from: $1.95 A great Gershwin collection with first class orchestral playing.
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![Sibelius, Prokofiev, Glazunov: Violin Concertos [Hybrid SACD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/613EmWRedCL._SL75_.jpg) | Sibelius, Prokofiev, Glazunov: Violin Concertos [Hybrid SACD]
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $5.76 Jascha Heifetz playing 3 great concertos in spectacular RCA early stereo.
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 | Brahms: Symphony No. 4; Beethoven: Egmont Overture
Buy used from: $19.97 Reiner thought this Brahms 4 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra was the most beautiful thing he ever recorded, and I'm sure he was right. A Keith Wilkinson recording in Kingsway Hall.
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 | Schubert: Trout/Death & the Maiden Curzon & Vienna Octet by Wiener Philharmonisches Quartet
Buy used from: $2.22 Gemütlich, which seems to rub some wrong (see the review), but this recording always brings a smile to my face.
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 | Latin American Fiesta
Buy used from: $40.98 Bernstein conducts Copland, Revueltas, Chavez, Villa-Lobos, and others. Great fun. The Revuieltas is volcanic.
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 | Prokofiev, Ravel: Piano Concertos, etc / Martha Argerich
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.94 Sparkling recordings of the concertos and a classic recording of Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit.
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 | Wagner: Orchestral Music by Herbert von Karajan
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $7.99 Music that plays to Karajan's strengths. The Tristan Prelude and Liebestod glows with sexual passion.
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 | Khachaturian: Masquerade Suite; Kabalevsky: The Comedians; Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien; Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol / Kondrashin
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $4.68 Brilliant early RCA stereo recordings conducted by the great Kiril Kondrashin.
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 | Ravel: Boléro
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $3.51 Classic Monteux recordings. Or just splurge and get the Monteux box below, which has these and many other great recordings.
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 | Pierre Monteux Decca & Philips Recordings, 1956-1964
Buy new: $55.98 / Used from: $35.10 Classic early stereo recordings of Ravel, Debussy, Elgar, Brahms, Haydn, and Sibelius.
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 | Bernstein Century - Copland: Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, etc / Bernstein, New York PO
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $4.45 Definitive Copland.
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 | Ancerl Gold Edition 7: Janacek/Glagolitic Mass & Taras Bulba by Libuse Domaninska
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $43.03 Definitive recordings of these rousing and spicy orchestral spectaculars.
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 | Shostakovich: Concerto for Cello in E flat; Symphony No. 1 in F Major
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $5.77 A great place to start with Shostakovich.
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 | Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D; Flos campi; Oboe Concerto
Buy used from: $5.75 Barbirolli would be my first choice; that also had a great recording of Bax's Tintagel, and is only available now in a big box of English music. But Handley is a also great VW conductor, and Flos campi is a very appealing work.
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 | Holst: The Planets / Dutoit, Montreal Symphony Orchestra (Penguin Music Classics Series) by Ethan Canin
Buy used from: $3.88 A standard for 20 years, and deservedly so.
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 | Dvorák: Symphonies Nos. 7-9
Buy used from: $30.00 With a glowing Czech Philharmonic in excellent early digital sound.
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 | Beethoven: Complete Symphonies (Box Set)
Buy used from: $17.99 Middle-of-the-road Beethoven with alert and stylish conducting by Herbert Blomstedt, beautiful playing from the Dresden Staatskapelle, warm analog sound, and great choral work in the 9th.
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 | Borodin: Orchestral Works
Buy new: $6.98 / Used from: $2.98 With a great recording of the rousing Symphony No. 2 by Kubelik and the Vienna Philharmonic.
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 | Elgar: Cello Concerto; Sea Pictures; Cockaigne Overture
Buy used from: $44.99 One of those recordings revered by Penguin/Grammophone that really does deserve its status.
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 | Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $5.99 Listen to the snappy playing that Schippers's gets in the Battle on the Ice in Alexander Nevsky. And the Pictures is a real sleeper.
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 | Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (excerpts)
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.44 Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra in great sound.
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 | Stravinsky: Symphonies and Concertos
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $8.79 Mostly middle period Stravinsky. Grumiaux and Davis are brilliant in the Violin Concerto, and Markevitch very effective in the Symphony of Psalms. For me, much of this wears better than the Rite of Spring.
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 | Ancerl Gold Edition 6: Mahler Symphony no. 1/ Strauss - Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $47.31 The sound of the Czech orchestra is perfect for this Mahler symphony, and the Strauss work is a nice bonus.
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 | Dvorák: Cello Concerto; Bruch: Kol Nidrei; Bloch: Schelomo
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.64 |
 | Moravec Plays Schumann & Franck
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $12.37 Ivan Moravec plays the Schumann Piano Concerto with Neumann conducting the Czech Philharmonic.
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